Editing Rock and roll (section)

=== Dance styles ===
From its early 1950s beginnings through the early 1960s, rock and roll spawned new [[Novelty and fad dances|dance crazes]]<ref>[http://www.sixtiescity.com/Culture/dance.shtm sixtiescity.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324225234/http://www.sixtiescity.com/Culture/dance.shtm |date=March 24, 2012 }} ''Sixties Dance and Dance Crazes''</ref> including the [[Twist (dance)|twist]]. Teenagers found the syncopated [[backbeat]] rhythm especially suited to reviving Big Band-era [[jitterbug]] dancing. [[Sock hop]]s, school and church gym dances, and home basement dance parties became the rage, and American teens watched [[Dick Clark]]'s ''[[American Bandstand]]'' to keep up on the latest dance and fashion styles.<ref>R. Aquila, ''That old-time rock & roll: a chronicle of an era, 1954–1963'' (University of Illinois Press, 2000), p. 10.</ref> From the mid-1960s on, as "rock and roll" was rebranded as  "rock", later dance genres followed, leading to [[funk]], [[disco]], [[house music|house]], [[techno]], and [[hip hop]].<ref>{{cite book
| last1 = Campbell
| first1 = Michael
|first2=James
 |last2=Brody
 | title = Rock and Roll: An Introduction
| publisher = Schirmer Books
| year = 1999
| location = New York, NY
| pages = 354–55
}}</ref>